By BosNewsLife Middle East and Africa Services

LONDON/CAIRO (BosNewsLife)-- An influential rights group said Monday, January 31, it had launched a campaign for religious freedom for Egyptian Christians at a time of unprecedented protests against President Hosni Mubarak's three-decades rule.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service

KANO, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christian worshipers prevented a bomb attack against their church in central Nigeria Sunday, January 31, but scores of other people died in sectarian clashes in recent days, authorities said.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife

AMSTERDAM/BUDAPEST/TEHRAN (BosNewsLife)-- The Netherlands says it has frozen official contacts with Iran to protest the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman and will ask the European Union to take action against the country.

By BosNewsLife News Service

BUDAPEST/MOSCOW (BosNewsLife)-- The BBC World Service, part of Britain's state-backed broadcaster, said Thursday, January 27, that it would cease all radio programming in Russian, four years after BosNewsLife revealed that at least one senior editor had ties with Russia's Soviet-era secret service. Former and current dissidents also complained about the network's "pro-Kremlin" tone.

By BosNewsLife Americas Service

DALLAS/MEXICO CITY (BosNewslife)-- Relatives and colleagues were mourning Thursday, January 27, the death of an evangelical American missionary who was fatally shot in Mexico.

By Santosh Digal, BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent reporting from India

BHUBANESWAR, INDIA (BosNewsLife)-- Relatives of a Protestant pastor who was found dead in India's volatile state of Orissa have accused local authorities of covering up an investigation "into his murder."

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- A well-known Iraqi Christian doctor remains in serious condition after he was shot while working in a private hospital in the town of Mosul, in the latest attack on the country’s besieged Christian community.

By BosNewsLife Africa and Middle East Services

CAIRO, EGYPT (BosNewsLife)-- Christian missionaries have warned of more anti-Christian violence in Egypt where Tuesday, January 25, thousands of people participated in anti-government rallies in the biggest challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's rule since coming to power in 1981.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (BosNewsLife)-- Islamic militants in Somalia have publicly killed a woman because she embraced Christianity, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, January 25.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos and Joseph DeCaro

ASMARA, ERITREA (BosNewsLife)-- A young Christian woman has died in a military prison in Eritrea after "two weeks of torture and harsh treatment," representatives said in comments monitored by BosNewsLife Tuesday, January 25.